Natalie Wood - Softcover

Gavin Lambert

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ISBN 10: 057122198X ISBN 13: 9780571221981

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2005

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She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendour in the Grass and West Side Story. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut aged seven in 1946, to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are marked by movies that summed up America's dreams. Now Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, tells her extraordinary story: her parents, her marriages and divorces and love affairs, her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children, her friendships, her struggles as an actress, and her tragic death by drowning (she was always terrified of water) at forty-three.

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About the Author:

Gavin Lambert is the author of four biographies, - On Cukor, Norma Shearer, Nazimova and Mainly About Lindsay Anderson - and seven novels. His screenplays include The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and the Oscar-nominated Sons and Lovers. He lives in Los Angeles

Review:

"'The astonishing life of the screen legend from a man who knew her for twenty years.' Tatler; 'Lambert is the ultimate Hollywood insider/outsider... the biography, although obviously affectionate, does not flinch from the emotional and romantic debris of her life... a very readable and well-crafted biography.' Independent; 'An irresistible portrait of Natalie's genorosity, spirit and fun... I fell in love with Natalie Wood all over again.' Mail on Sunday; 'This biography is stunning... sceptical, elegant, generous, exact' Observer"

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